cheaper = ecologically friendlier? NOPE

Why 3D print them? Isn’t that more ecologically wasteful than just getting any of the mass-produced ones? They aren’t exactly hard to come by. Fuck your wasteful printing.

skill issue, failed parenting, & cash grab

If you publish there, you are supporting right wing propaganda.

Not how taking a cut of subscription revenue works. If you publish right wing propaganda, then maybe you have a point.

Yes, and that’s exactly why the article is important.

Explaining to us how subscriptions work like we’re idiots is important? Or was that common knowledge a revelation for you?

That’s the worst written headline I’ve read in a while.

I can’t read URLs.

That trauma adds up for everyone

if they bitchass

Why would i want to watch someone die?

You guys wanna go see a dead body?

The New York attorney general, Letitia James, said the state’s new legal observers would be volunteer employees from her office, trained to observe, without interfering, whether Trump’s immigration enforcement “remains within the bounds of the law”.

Why isn’t that the police ordered to do the goddamn job?

All of it: most of them were actually against it. You understand a minority party ain’t got much power? Even less with their multiple factions not all voting the same? They entirely voted against the Big Beautiful Bill (senate vote & house vote). The vast majority voted to keep the shutdown (senate vote & house vote). It’s a consistent pattern.

None of it suffices: even with the vast majority of the party opposing the administration, they lack leverage until their opposition starts defecting. Until government starts checking the administration’s illegitimate actions, it ultimately falls on the people to defy & resist them.

Better yet, why not limit their career choices to paramilitary thug?

anybody that reads the headline and doesn’t immediately side with the kidnapped children

Are you finding anyone like that here? This is lemmy. Writing that to no one on here seems performative.

As I understand it, the character was reappropriated from an oh exploitable publicly funded game Pathways (play it) designed to inform students about part of a public counterterrorism program for voluntarily deradicalizing extremists without legal consequences for opting-out. The player plays a new college student, Charlie, who runs into scenarios. First scenario: on a sketchy social media website their new friends use, a video is shared, and the player is offered choices:

• download the video
• ask about the video
• tell a trusted adult

If the player chooses to download

Charlie downloaded the video and shared it with different people online.

Charlie felt relieved and happy that people were liking the video and also sharing it.

Deep down, Charlie wasn’t sure if this was the right thing to do, as some of the ideas in the video were extreme and violent.

It’s important to remember that downloading or streaming certain content can lead to a terrorist offence conviction.

Apparently, download implies more than that, the game bundles unnecessary actions together, & merely downloading/viewing content has legal risks. The other choices aren’t much better: an extremist tells Charlie people who care about their country will download & share the video or an adult explains extremism, so Charlie simply doesn’t download it. Charlie can’t just view the video to judge it: great message for self-reliance & developing the criticism to participate competently in democracy.

I’m guessing the other scenarios play out similarly. At some point, Charlie is courted by Amelia, a nationalist teenager with purple hair who Charlie can refer to the deradicalization program.

I can see why derision of this game took off & the alt-right embraced Amelia as their meme: trolling potential like that is irresistible to pass up.

I’m saying it’d make a fine retort to turn it around & point out protesters would be fools to turn down payment.

I dunno that I deserve to be paid just for showing up and flipping a few birdies at assholes.

We’d definitely take any payment offered though, right?

Why shouldn’t protesters get paid? Is Paul Allen trying to bring back slave labor?

7 out of 213 Democrats!

FTFY

Is there some rule that the news never name or link to bills & their votes so we can look up comprehensive information? It appears to be House vote 42 for H.R. 7147.

Only the most conservative Democrats voted for this. The vast majority voted against.

They’re a big tent party with a number of factions, and Blue Dog Coalition is the most conservative caucus.

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Do commenters know they can copy text instead of break web accessibility?

From the article

The partnership, announced in October 2025, integrates Ring’s Community Requests feature directly into Flock’s law-enforcement platforms, FlockOS and Flock Nova, allowing police departments to request Ring camera footage through Ring’s Neighbors app.

Ring Community Requests feature

Community Requests

What is Community Requests?

Community Requests is a privacy-protected service that enables public safety agencies to put out public requests for help and efficiently and securely collect and manage digital evidence. Public safety agencies can post a request in the Neighbors feed asking community members within a specific area to share Ring video footage or information that may help their investigation. Videos customers choose to share in response to Community Requests go directly to Axon Evidence, a secure evidence management system where they can be verified for authenticity and integrity. This also creates a complete audit trail of how and when public safety agencies collect information.

Participation is always voluntary, and public safety agencies can only see what you choose to share.

The owner chooses what to share in response to a request. Just like IRL when the police knock on an owner’s door to request information.

https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/ring-cameras-join-flock-and-amazon?r=1t17zr

Did OP know the form to create/edit posts has a field named URL?